Workshop Materials

Slides and other resources are at https://workshop.kerryback.com

Why Python?

  • Data analysis
  • Automate things
  • Example from MGMT 675: Cost of Equity App
  • The app is written entirely in python.
  • All of the python code was written by AI.

Plan for the Workshop

  • We will work through notebooks together
  • Respond to the Working/Stuck/Ready poll if you get stuck or when you finish a notebook
  • When everyone is finished, we will discuss and then move on together to the next notebook
  • Important: Our goal is to learn what can be done and how python works in general. It is *not our goal to memorize exactly how to do all of the things we will cover.
  • We can always ask AI to supply the details.

Get Started

  • You need a Google account.
  • You need to install Google Drive
  • Drive should appear as a folder on your laptop. In Windows Explorer, it is under This PC
  • Create a new folder This PC\Google Drive\My Drive\Workshop
  • Download the zip file linked on workshop.kerryback.com to This PC\Google Drive\My Drive
  • Extract all of the files to This PC\Google Drive\My Drive\Workshop

Open Colab

  • Go to https://colab.research.google.com
  • You should be looking at an Open Notebook screen
  • Choose Google Drive
  • Find and open Part1_Colab.ipynb
  • If for any reason you are unable to use Google Drive, open Part1 Colab at workshop.kerryback.com
  • Respond to the Working/Stuck/Ready poll when you are ready to move on or if you are stuck